
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.57/day in the week to Aug 10 → 15/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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понятия не имею, как стим скрывал этот бриллиант от меня всё это время. наряду с the stanley parable ultra deluxe, это одно из самых гениальных творений за этот год.
Muy buen juego. Excelente historia narrada. Me lo jugué 2 veces para corroborar de no haberlo entendido mal, y en las 2 veces el final me dejo pensando. Este es el primer juego que juego de este creador, y por lo que leí en las reseñas, es el mismo creador de "The Stanley Parable", tampoco lo jugué, pero por lo que vi también es muy recomendado. Lo tendré en menta para jugarlo en el futuro. The Beginner's Guide, no creo que sea un juego para todo el publico. Si buscas una gran historia, la tiene, pero creo que solo hace efecto en cierto público. No diré spoilers, pero si buscas un juego que hable sobre el diseño de videojuegos, el apartado estético, y de reflexiones... probablemente, este sea tu tipo de juego. Aún así lo recomiendo mucho. 9/10. Me encanto
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 1.1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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그... 저기. 근데 이런 말들이 상처가 될 수 있으니까.. 말을 아끼도록 하겠습니다. 그러니까 내가.. 누군가를 이제 좋아한다는 사실이 그 사람에게는 상처가 될 수 있잖아요.. 무언가를 좋아하기 시작한 당신을 위한 초보자 가이드
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I feel like some of the message went over my head but i still enjoyed it overall, maybe i just haven't felt what any of the characters have felt yet, so the motivation is hard to understand. Maybe in the future it will make more sense to me.
whew
I dont know what to say. absolutely loved the game. Went in blind with no expectations. but the ending... i am so unsettled, in a good way, i feel like i need to know more... I dont even know what i wanna know i just.. NEED TO KNOW. Just... A Masterpiece
I just couldnt get past the writing, might resonate with some people but i say pass.
I did not like this game. I'm not really sure why. Out of all the games i ever played on steam this one is the first one that i felt was very boring. Idk. My first issue was lack of starting. It took me about 20 mins just to open the game. I would click to open the game only for it to crash. Once it did open after the troubleshooting i did. It was completely fine but i was afraid that it was going to crash. Then the game became a walking simulator. I would walk and read text boxes only to have the narrator start talking. So I would have to stop playing the game or stop reading. It got to the point that i just kept playing as the narrator spoke to progress the dialogue. Sad and disappointed. If you like walking simulators and have about 2 hours to kill, play this game. I would not recommend this game but I also would not be mad if I had to play this game again. The positive is that you got to see behind the scenes of game development as seeing unused assets and things that have been created being unused. I did not want existentialism. I felt bad for the narrator but more sad for the other guy he was trying to be friends with. People are more complex then that.
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